"I have some doubts: this sort of half-witted public relations maneuver has occurred more than once in the party's shabby internal history, and is perfectly capable of standing on its own, as yet another example of the suit-and-tie clique—whose unspoken motto has always been "respectability above everything, especially including principle"—looking to suck up to whatever they perceive as the Establishment. I doubt they're smart enough to hatch this as a power play."

"After all, it is the job of grownups (in a Darwinian sense, it is their only job) to nurture children and protect them from harm, rather than exploit them. As the father of a daughter for the past 18 years, it's been my job.

"It is a very different thing to hand that job off to a collection of statist bullies who have been assembled without Constitutional authorization—their very existence as an organization is a blatant and egregious violation of the law, as well as the Zero Aggression Principle—and whose many crimes include the wholesale slaughter of eighty-odd individuals in their home and church near Waco, Texas, in 1993, including around two dozen innocent, helpless little kids. This is the way that the FBI "protects" children."

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